Wasn't surprising to see Minnesota speak up -- a shining light in gvt
open source GIS for a long time. I'm glad to hear of changes afoot.
Although I'm not doing GIS or government work now, part of why left
government work for O'Reilly was my isolation from Open Source in
government computing.
Tim O is very interested these days in getting more involved with
government, and has always been into GIS, but there's not a lot of focus
on local government, where as you all know most GIS data comes from. If
there's anything that could be rolled up into a get together for Where
2.0 or wherecamp I'd be happy to represent for O'Reilly. I've known
Bruce Joffee for a long time too; perhaps he could be brought more
explicitly into the open source camp.
Charles
Andrew Turner wrote:
I was at the North Carolina GIS conference in Raleigh a few weeks ago
and was very impressed by some of the work being down at county-levels.
Obviously there is still a very heavy ESRI bias - but with shrinking
budgets, no time for training and customized development and lack of
support for true interoperability they're looking around.
The most advanced use was the county of Mecklenburg - full open-stack
and really good insights on the value the API's and data had on local
businesses. The only issue here was the it was all done by a single,
incredibly talented developer.
Hopefully though through his presentations and documentation that other
counties and municipalities can follow his lead - either by using "off
the shelf" open tools or even utilizing public repositories to offload
that work and just put up to various other systems.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David William Bitner
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I work for a government airport authority in Minnesota.
We have an OSGeo Local Chapter where historically most of us have
been government folks. Government GIS mingling also happens through
government sponsored groups around here such as the MN Governor's
Council on GIS and MetroGIS. The largest meeting for government
(and business and non-profit) types in MN is the annual conference
put on by the MN GIS/LIS consortium.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:53 PM, David Fawcett
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I work in state government in Minnesota.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Charles Greer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Brian Denzer wrote:
>>
> Do we have any civil service folks on this list at all I
wonder? It felt at
> the county that the ESRI user conference was the only place
all the gvt
> types mingled.
>
> Charles
>
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